Holiday Slimline Wiper Card Duo

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!  I have two more holiday cards to add to my bin for Christmas 2024 - these ones are Slimline sized Wiper Cards and I have a walkthrough of these on YouTube: 

I used Slimline sized patterned paper along with a Wiper Card die set made for a 5x7" card - I love getting more uses out of my dies.  I also used the 'Above It All' stamp/die bundle that I got from Stampin' Up last year. Since we live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, I knew I could use this die set year round. You can take the gondola up to the top of Tunnel Mountain in Banff in the Spring & Summer for some spectacular views. Also in summer you can also take a gondola up Sunshine Mountain to hike around on top of the ski hill to see all the beautiful wildflowers.

In the photo above, you can see the card fronts and the piece that comes out when you pull on the sides. In the photo below you can see the back sides of both cards when they are closed. Yes, even though the papers are exactly the same the position of the prints are slightly different - I explain that in my video. Hint - I have a REALLY hard time making Wiper Cards - they just don't make sense in my brain. Ha.

Finally, the lower photo shows the back of the card in the open position.

Note - I lined up the die onto the right side of the papers and held it in place with removable tape before die cutting (I showed this in the video). Also, I trimmed about 1/4" from the top of the wiper piece and rounded the corners so it fit inside the card a little better. Since the card size is smaller than the 5x7" that the die was designed for I needed to make that adjustment. That part was easy peasy! 

Supplies used: 

Patterned paper - Slimline paper pack, Frozen - Whimsy Stamps

5x7" Rectangle Wiper Card die set - Sam Calcott, Made To Surprise/Mixed Up Crafts

Corner rounder

Push here - Lawn Fawn

Labels Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Above it All stamps & dies - Stampin' Up

Silver Snowflake peel off stickers

'Bees & Balloons' Birthday Cards

 

I was flipping through the paper pad "Little Book of Bees', and near the back was this print. In between the honeycombs was a phrase - which I knew I would likely never use on a card. There are SIX of each design in the pad, so I pulled out all 6 and decided to use the panels by adding a strip of cardstock down the center to completely hide that sentiment. (Sorry, I can't remember what it even said!).

The pad is UK sizing, but I usually trim the panels down to work on a 4x6" card. These ones though, I wanted to trim to 4x5.25" and use on an A2 card base. Once I had them trimmed down and had added the white cardstock strip I was ready to decorate. This long stamp with the balloons & Happy Birthday seemed perfect! I stamped and die cut six of the images then coloured with alcohol markers. It's been AGES since I've done any colouring.

Before popping the balloon images up with foam tape, I lightly inked the centre with blue ink so it wasn't quite as stark. I added three gold foil bee stickers to tie in with the honeycomb, and coloured their bodies with an alcohol marker. Then I added some Wink of Stella glitter to the balloons - I do love shimmer & shine on a birthday card. 

I stamped the sentiment inside and my cards were finished. I'll be saving one for my stash and the remaining 5 will be donated to my Mom's old nursing home. I was happy to be able to use up 6 of those panels in one go - especially since my initial reaction was that they would have to go into recycling. 

Supplies used:

Little Book of Bees, Hunkydory

Birthday Balloons (stamp and die) - Rubbernecker Stamps

Alcohol markers

Blending Brushes - Taylored Expressions

Blending Sponge - Sizzix

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Wink of Stella

Gold foil bee stickers - Amazon .ca

Inside - Happy Birthday Sentiments, Pinkfresh Studio

Mini MISTI

Mini Slimline 'BUZZING BY TO SAY...' Card

I was moving things around in my craft room and found the Bee Happy pouch with a few leftover pieces inside it. This is a cardmaking kit by Paper Rose that I worked on a lot several months ago. I decided to see what was in the pouch and ended up with enough pieces to make two Mini Slimline cards. This is the first one and I'll share the second one another day.

There were no more ephemera pieces left so I stamped and die cut a bee to add onto a die cut hexagon. The bee was coloured with alcohol markers with some glitter glue added as well. The outside sentiment is in the same stamp set as the bee (Studio Katia).

Here is a peek at the inside, with a very old stamp and a few scraps of the patterned paper. Since there is narrow gold tape on the front I added a strip inside as well.

Supplies used:

Bee Happy Cardmaking Kit - Paper Rose

Gold foil narrow tape - Amazon .ca

Hexagon Crosshatch dies - Karen Burniston

Honey Bees - Studio Katia

Alcohol Markers

Wink of Stella

Blending brushes - Taylored Expressions

Catherine Pooler Coloured Inks

Bees Sentiments - Elizabeth Craft Designs (old)

Canada Day Card Duo

 

Every year I send out Canada Day cards to family & a few friends, but this year these are the only two cards I managed to make! 😩  I may have to make a couple in the coming weeks to have on hand for next year. Sheesh.  

At any rate, I was flipping through the Moose Crossing patterned paper pad by Catherine Pooler and saw the buffalo plaid maple leaf print. Bingo! I grabbed the coordinating stamp set and decided to use the August 2023 Sheetload sketch for these cards.

After punched out the stamped beaver with a label punch, I aded some dots with a marker to 'ground' him and lightly inked the edges. Inside, I added a few more stamps from the set and a Celebrate stamp. 

Now to decide which family members will get a card, ha ha. I'm thinking that we will be getting together with my brother and our eldest daughter & family, so the ones that won't be joining us will get Happy Mail to celebrate Canada's 157th Birthday!

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Moose Crossing, Catherine Pooler (6x6")

                                            August 2023 Sheetload of Cards

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Oh Canada stamp set - Catherine Pooler

Blending Sponges

Happy Canada Day - Happy Celebrations, Studio Katia

Celebrate - Birthday Cheer, Papertrey Ink

Ice Cream Z-Fold Card Trio

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog! I had found these older ice cream ephemera pieces in a ziplock bag in my craft room so decided to pull them out and use them on my ice cream cards this year. I haven't made a Z-Fold card in awhile so that is what I did as well - they are my very favourite fun fold card to make.

When my Mom was a little girl, there was always a July parade in their town. Afterwards her dad, my Grampa, would take her to the drugstore for an ice cream soda. She continued the tradition with my brother and I, taking us for ice cream on that special day in July.  I did that with our kids too - bringing my Mom along. We always made sure she had ice cream on that day. 

Now that she has passed, we continue the tradition - raising an ice cream cone or sundae to her in a toast,  and our grandkids think it's a great tradition! I also send my family ice cream themed cards to celebrate. 

I love the Lacy Layer dies from Waffle Flower and have managed to collect most of the shapes. There are alternating scalloped & stitched/straight edge dies in each set, which is what I used for these cards.

I added Pops of Colour (glitter glaze) on each of the ice cream pieces for some shimmer and shine, and added the elements using thin foam tape. The Celebrate was stamped in grey ink onto narrow cardstock scraps then I fishtailed the ends.

Here is a look at the inside of the above card, but they were all done the same.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Heart Throb, Queen & Co (6x6")

Petite Prints - Doodlebug (Love Notes)

Lacy Circles - Waffle Flower

Pops of Color, Icicle - Scrapbook .com

Ice cream ephemera - unknown, from my stash

Happy stamp - Biggest Wish, Stampin' Up

Coloured pens & markers

Share a Milkshake - Stampin' Up

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Four More June Sheetload Cards

Earlier this week I shared my June Sheetload of Cards, and as I said in the video I wanted to try ones with a more masculine feel. I looked through one of my 6x6" paper pads and these two prints seemed to work well together. 

Since I had just finished off that Paper Pumpkin kit from 2016 (see yesterday's post) the stamp set and star enamel elements were still sitting on my stamping table. I used them to finish off the card fronts, then added a stamped sentiment using a different stamp set for the inside.

  Supplies used:

June Sheetload of Cards - Call Me Crafty Al

Patterned paper - Picture Perfect 6x6", Queen & Co

Lots of Birthday 2 Stamp - the Stamps of Life

Happy Birthday & Star enamel embellishments - May 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit, Many Manly Occasions (Stampin' Up)

Mini MISTI

Bright Birthday Card Trio

I have several older Paper Pumpkin kits sitting near my stamping table, so I pulled out this one (May 2016 Paper Pumpkin 'Many Manly Occasions') to see what was left in there to use up. There were three of these laser cut card bases, a number of the 'Happy' stickers and enamel accents and all of the orange corrugated panels. While I love orange, I was never a fan of it for these cards where the orange corrugated showed through the laser cut card fronts. 

I went looking through my papers and pulled out a 12x12" sheet by Doodlebug. I liked the cheerful rainbow stripes for the front, and when you open the card up you see the polka dot printed on the reverse of the paper. 

The large HAPPY stickers were in the kit - and I do have a couple of those leftover which I will have to remember to use up. But other than that - this Paper Pumpkin kit is now finished!

Inside the card I added  stamped sentiments and stars, as well as adding another enamel star element from the kit. The washi tape is from my stash. I added the orange corrugated panels into my orange scrap file, and hope I find a good use for it when making fall cards. 

Supplies used:

Laser cut card bases, 'Happy' stickers and star embellishments - May 2016 Paper Pumpkin 'Many Manly Occasions', Stampin' Up

Patterned paper - Doodlebug Designs

Birthday Builder - Altenew

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Mini MISTI

Birthday Cheer - Papertrey Ink

June 2024 Sheetload of Cards

I have actually had these cards finished for about 10 days, but I didn't have time to edit the video or take the photos until now. But here is my take on the June Sheetload of Cards and I have a walkthrough on YouTube.  

As I said in the video, you can get four cards from each pair of 6x6" patterned papers so I grabbed a very old package of papers and came up with these 16 cards to donate to my Mom's old nursing home.

This is another fun Sheetload and a great way to use up these older papers.  I plan on making more cards using this sketch. I don't have a ton of 6x6" papers, but the ones I do have will work great with this Sheetload.

Supplies used:

June 2024 Sheetload of Cards

6x6" random patterned papers, from a paper share by a previous Stampin' Up demonstrator

Daisy punches - Stampin' Up

Alcohol markers

Hip Hip - Good feelings, Stampin' Up

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Label punches - Stampin' Up

Happy Birthday - Happy Thoughts, Stampin' Up

Birthday - Darkroom Door

Mini MISTI

Gold foil bee stickers - Amazon .ca

Stickles glitter glue

Nuvo Drops - Tonic Studios

Ice Cream Shaker Card

Every July (on a certain day) my Grandpa would take my Mom to the Soda Shop in their little town for an Ice Cream Sundae. She continued the tradition with my brother and I even once we were living on our own!  When my Dad could no longer drive, we would make sure my Mom got her ice cream sundae on that day. Now that she is in heaven, we keep that tradition going with our children and grandchildren. It's a happy way to honour her memory!  I also send them an ice-cream themed card.

Today I'm sharing the first ice cream card that I'll be sending this year and I couldn't resist making this one a shaker card. Or Faux Shaker.  Or Edge to Edge Shaker.  Or one of the other names these go by 😂.  

I cut the patterned paper to 4 x 5.25" and cut a piece of transparency 5 x 6.25" (1" bigger all around). Scoring the transparency to fit around the decorated piece of patterned paper, I mitred the corners and attached it to the back of the patterned paper on 3 sides. After pouring in the sequins on the front side, I attached that one transparency edge on the back and my 'faux shaker was finished. The ice cream element, gem stickers & word die were added on top of the transparency and the whole piece was adhered to the front of my card.

Inside I added some scalloped circles, die cut phrase and gem stickers - which were attached with a folded paper spring.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Neapolitan, Dear Lizzy (old)

Transparency

Peel Off gem stickers - Dazzles

Sequins - Stash

Scallop Stitched Nesting Circle dies - Tutti Designs

Blending Brushes - Taylored Expessions

Washi Tape - possibility Doodlebug Designs

Big Scripty Words - Lawn Fawn

Rainbow patterned paper - JJ's Rainbows, Waffle Flower

YAY die - the Stamps of Life

Mini Alpha & Numbers - Karen Burniston

Slimline Father's Day Card

Well it looks like I completely missed Masculine Card Monday here on my blog, having had a busy day and not much time on the computer. I used to have so many card done ahead of time, I could sit and schedule several blog posts at a time. That meant I was always a day or two ahead. But since I haven't had much creative playtime, I am scrambling both to make cards and get them posted in a timely manner. Anyhow, this is the final Father's Day card I'm sharing this year and I made it for our son-in-law. 

Inside is a simple box pop-up to which I added die cut mountains and trees. I have done several tutorials on YouTube for making this type of pop up, and you can find one of them HERE.  

For this card I took a 4x4" piece of Kraft cardstock, and scored it at 1, 2 and 3". Then I folded it as I did in the video linked above. 

The treeline die is actually taller than this but it stuck out of the card when it was closed. Remember this is a Slimline card with only a 3.5" width. I just trimmed off the bottom and kept checking it against the pop up base until the trees remained inside the card edges when I closed the card. They were die cut from white card stock, then dipped and dragged through dye ink puddles on my glass mat. I did leave them to dry for about 1/2 hour before adhering them to the mountain die cut. 

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Adventure Awaits, Honey Bee Stamps

Treeline dies - Tim Holtz/Sizzix

Blending Brushes - Taylored Expressions

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Stamps - Tie-Rific, Reverse Confetti

Bear - Wildlife Wonder, Stampin' Up

Mountain die - Moonflower, Studio Light

Circle die - Hero Arts

Deer stamp - Nature's Beauty, Stampin' Up

Short Rectangle Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

Adventure Pop-Up Father's Day Card

Today I'm sharing a fairly simple pop-up card I made for our son-in-law for Father's Day. The patterned paper takes centre stage as he loves to travel and that winding road just spoke to me for him. The card base is 6.5 x 5", but I cut it down to 6.25" since the paper is 6x6" square. That left me with a smaller white border on each side which I liked better. (The paper was cut to 5x6")

Inside I used Karen Burniston's Little Twist Panel Pop Up die set, which I haven't had out for a while. The stamps are all older ones from my stash and listed below if you are curious.

I also added a panel on the inside bottom of the card before adding the mechanism, as it felt like it needed some balance and stability. That also helps the mechanism work smoother and it just feels better in my hand.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - Watercoloured Landscapes 1.0, Paper Rose

5x6.5" card base and envelope

Adventure - Wild Whisper

Little Twist Panel Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Birds & tree stamps - Here's to you, March 21 Paper Pumpkin

Happy Father's Day - Tie-Riffic, Reverse Confetti

Short Rectangles Crosshatch - Karen Burniston

4-H Pop Up Card

 

We are SO proud of our grandkids! This was their first year in 4-H and they chose a Lamb project. Last week was the final show (sorry, not up on the lingo) and auction and all three kids took home ribbons, awards, and the youngest will have a trophy and belt buckle for all his efforts. They worked really hard with their lambs and it showed!

I wasn't able to attend the show - which went for almost 4 days - but hubby went on the final day and got to see the awards presented, & watch the auction etc etc. I made this card to send them 😊.

I haven't used the Rockin' Rectangle Pop Up (Karen Burniston) in awhile, so that is what I pulled out for the inside. The sweet lamb panels are from a large book of farm animal pages I got several years ago from R&R Scrapbooking in Edmonton. 

Supplies used:

Lamb panels - Little Book of Farm Animals, Hunkydory (old)

Rockin' Rectangle Pop-Up - Karen Burniston

Word Set 8, XwlwveRW- Karen Burniston

Mini Alphabet & Numbers - Karen Burniston

5x7" Card base and envelope

Desert Themed Father's Day Card

I meant to share this card yesterday for Masculine Card Monday on my blog .. but time completely got away from me. 

I knew I wanted to use this SW themed patterned paper pad for hubby's card and when I was looking through my fun fold die sets I spied this Zig Zag die set. This time I reversed the way the circles fold though, with the back circle sliding over the front one and I was really happy with that. I'll do it again for sure.  The die makes the score lines at the same time it cuts and I just folded the left circle to the back and the right circle to the front. That gave me the overlapping effect. 

The decorative elements were die cut from another sheet of paper in the pad, and I also pulled out an older stamp set with some desert flora & fauna to stamp on the plainer pieces.

Supplies used:

SL Circle ZigZag Cardshape Essentials - Studio Light

Patterned paper - Golden Desert, Prima

SW stamps - Bohemian, Michaels

Blending sponges

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Happy Father's Day - Karen Burniston

Tie-Riffic - Reverse Confetti

Alcohol markers